Roaming killers rip Gold Coast pet apart and seriously injure another

A TALLAI mother and daughter watched in horror as two large dogs mauled their pets in their backyard this week.

Jacqui Evren fought back tears as she told of seeing the two large staffordshire terriers rip the throat out of one of her docile shih tzu dogs, killing it and seriously injuring the other.

Adding to their pain was knowing the dogs had been roaming wild after being declared dangerous following an attack on a man earlier this year.

media_cameraA fatal dog attacked occurred at Tallai yesterday afternoon. Rachel Evren, 16, is picture at home with shitzu's Patchy and Snowy (back) who where attacked by two dogs. Picture: supplied

Ms Evren said the savage animals somehow got into her fenced backyard on The Panorama about 3.30pm on Wednesday.

“I was outside at the front fence and my daughter was inside the house and we just saw our little Patchy run up to the side where two big dogs were and straight away I knew what was going to happen,” she said.

“I saw the two big dogs ripping Patchy apart and then our other shih tzu, Snowy, came around and got mauled pretty bad as well.

media_cameraHAPPIER TIMES: Patchy is pictured during a past vet visit. He was killed in yesterday’s dog attack. Picture: supplied

“There was blood all over the house and Patchy was covered in blood with his throat almost ripped out. We are utterly devastated.”

Rachel Evren, 16, said she had to make the heartbreaking decision to leave her dogs in the yard or be attacked herself. “I straight away called our three dogs to come inside but that alerted the two staffies and they started running towards me,” she said.

“I had to close the door and leave Patchy and Snowy behind or I would have been mauled myself.”

media_cameraA fatal dog attacked occurred at Tallai yesterday afternoon. Pictured are the two dogs that allegedly did the attacking. Picture: supplied

Seven-year-old Patchy was killed while nine-year-old Snowy was last night clinging to life in a Gold Coast veterinarian’s surgery.

The two staffies have been seized by council officers and a spokeswoman confirmed they would be destroyed.

The dogs had been declared “dangerous” in April after they bit a man.

Les Richardson said he received a nasty bite to the leg that needed stitches.

“I can’t believe these dogs were still out and about after they attacked me,” he said.

“They attacked other animals in the area.

“Some neighbours said they found their chickens ripped to death in their pens.

“It’s not the first time these dogs offended and now a dog is dead.”

An elderly woman in the neighbourhood came home on Wednesday afternoon to find her dog dead in her yard but yesterday she was too distraught to speak about it.

A council spokeswoman confirmed the dogs had been declared dangerous after an incident earlier in the year.

She said under the law animals could not be destroyed until they were deemed dangerous and committed an offence while a declared ­animal.